"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."

abscate wrote: ↑21 Nov 2024, 18:44 Unplug the injector and the mileage won’t suffer much. It will run ok over 2500 rpm but it will have a perpetual check engine code for misfire. I would run it. I do have a good NA cylinder head in Albany NY

but the deadhead is an LPT?

I did the SAS bypass on the ECM. I've left the whole pump assembly in place. Not sure I need to do anything with it, perhaps disconnect the relay.

Somehow the O2 sensor was unplugged while working on hoses and intake, that took care of the P0141. The P0304 was taken care of by a new spark plug, old one had broke and the central electrode moved back and forth. No codes now and smooth idle!

I am 425 miles in, will be over 800 by the time we get back. Driving the willow green XC70. Hooked the R (it lives here in Chicago with my daughter) up to VIDA, looks like the Haldex pump is giving intermittent failure codes, sigh ... they will soon get rid of it in favor of a new car, anyway. At le...

$450 (or more) is why my passenger side window has voice control.
Passenger "Will you put down my window?"
Driver "Yes. Let me push my button for your window."
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abscate wrote: ↑09 Dec 2024, 06:06 Picked up a new project!

Nice, another AWD S70, even in the correct Abscate color!

And now, as most people with an AWD know, the unique parts are no longer made or only available from brands like Uro. But I'm noticing this with more and more parts not just for the AWD. Yesterday I tried to hunt down the source of a leak into my rear tailgate. I think water is getting in through th...

Yes, it seems that 850s have these variations. Finally, I replaced the breather system. The first time I have ever done it. It was a learning process for sure. I had already ordered the pcv kit before I started the job. The breather box of this new kit had the two ports on top of it, so I blogged th...

I come to confess and repent of my sins. The MVS faithful have preached well regarding OEM motor mounts, but I had strayed. Somehow tempted by the harlot Hamburg Technic I wallowed in the sin of crap knockoff front and rear mounts. Immediately I felt the weight of my mistake through the vibrations a...